Why The Solution Is Always To Control Your Focus

The only way to build a life you want to keep is to protect your focus and stop giving away your time and energy to things that don’t amplify your life.

Being distracted by other people, changing circumstances, and your own rampant thoughts is the quickest way to derail from any sort of forward movement in your life.

Without growth, you will suffer.

Without controlling your focus, you will not grow.

Get it?

A study in the Journal of Applied Psychology looked at personality and goal-striving and found that mental focus emerged as the most important aspect of the self-regulation process and an important motivational strategy that successful people use while working toward goal achievement.

The studies found that people who did not protect their focus or align their focus with their deeper interests and values had difficulty not only choosing appropriate goals to pursue, but found themselves exhausted of resources before ever reaching their goals.

In other words, people who can’t control their focus, can’t achieve their goals.

Research from the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin agrees that if you don’t strategically protect yourself from your own negative thoughts by controlling your focus, you are more likely to sabotage your success.

Have you ever pulled back right before reaching a big goal?

Have you ever overthought a situation and, as a result, failed to make the right decision?

When you start to get strategic with your life, you realize that everything that extends from you also begins within you.

Once you realize this, you will also realize that you can reprioritize yourself and your life at will.

You will be able to easily identify where you’re wasting your time and energy and who you’re wasting it with.

Here are 3 strategies for how to deal with emotional pain by regaining control over your focus and your life…

1. Eliminate the wrong people.

When you enter into a difficult period of your life, it’s critical that you surround yourself with the right people.

It’s also critical that you remove the wrong people from your life.

This means stepping away from anyone who is not supporting you during a difficult time, or anyone who tries to make you feel worse about yourself or the situation you’re in, even if it’s a family member or close friend.

Of course, no one can make you feel like garbage without your consent.

But you need to be proactive in eliminating people who consistently dump their garbage on you too.

Eliminate the thoughts that were implanted by someone else when you were too vulnerable to reject them.

Decide to own your thoughts and make them work for you.

You’re the only one who has the power to do this.

You’re the only one who has the power to control your focus.

100% of the emotional pain you experience in life is caused by distraction. The only way to protect against distraction is to sharpen your focus. The only way you’ll build a life that you want is to protect your focus and stop giving away your time and energy to things that don’t amplify your life. Being distracted by other people, changing circumstances, and your own rampant thoughts is the quickest way to derail forward progress in your life. To eliminate pain and distraction from your life, you need to focus on the right things, and to do this, you need to cut out the wrong things.

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